Susannah Morse (unaffiliated): ‘Gods of the Wild: Numinous figures of land and sea in Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising’
Maeve Tynan (Mary Immaculate College): ‘“Us is near bein’ wild things ourselves”: Wildness and Cultivation in Eva Ibbotson’s Journey to the River Sea and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden’

Kristin Prinzing (MusEco Media and Education Project): ‘The Green Man Archetype and children’s television programming as a pathway through the barriers of eco-political rhetoric’
Jane Barnette and John Gentile (Kennesaw State University): ‘Staging the Green Man in Dark Forest: Tales and Poems from the Brothers Grimm’

18:15 RECEPTION

SATURDAY, 21 JULY

10:00-11:30 Registration and Tour of Botanic Gardens

11:30-12:00 Tea/Coffee

12:00-13:00 PLENARY 3
Jim Kay, Illustrator
Title TBC

13:00-14:30 LUNCH/TRAVEL BACK TO TRINITY

14:30-16:00 PANEL SESSION 4

Panel 4A: Going Back
Chair: Greg Hulsman

Dara Downey (Trinity College Dublin): Green on the Inside: Posthumans and Psycho-Mythopoeic Forests in Dianna Wynne Jones’ Hexwood and Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood’
Marion Gibson (University of Exeter): ‘Past, present and future: Stig of the Dump and the environmental politics of prehistory’
Conor Reid (Trinity College Dublin): ‘“A Tarzan Tribesman will always be truthful, honest, manly and courageous”: The Feral Child and Character Formation’

Panel 4B: Green Villains and Monsters
Chair: Anne Sappington

Máiréad Casey (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Poisonous Woman: Poison Ivy’s place in the DC Universe’
James Cole (University of Southampton): ‘The Beast Within: The Werewolf in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature’